By Anonymous on Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 01:13 pm:
Friends;
I am trying to find a good instructor and course on HPLC troubleshooting. I would like to hear some opinions from you. Thus far I have found only three places where such training is offered; LC Resources, ACS, and Delphi laboratories. ACS does not offer in-house training.
Please send me any feedback you may have. Who offers a good course?, who are the good instructors?. All opinions are welcome
By Anonymous on Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 02:44 pm:
http://webshop.chem.agilent.com/iccdocs/index.shtml has an online seminar on this scheduled for June 6. Also, Agilent has a training course on Practical HPLC Troubleshooting and Maintenance #H8969A (geared towards #1100 systems).
By tom jupille on Wednesday, May 1, 2002 - 05:00 pm:
The ACS Troubleshooting course is taught by John Dolan of LC Resources. The content is essentially the same as we offer in-house (I'm with LC Resources, by the way). The focus is on diagnosis and preventive maintenance issues that are common to all systems.
If you are looking for an instrument-specific course, my personal feeling is that you are better off going to the instrument manufacturers. They can provide a lot of detail and "insider tricks" unique to their hardware.
And you might be surprised at how much your people can learn by spelunking through the archives here in the Forum!
-- Tom Jupille / LC Resources
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By Anonymous on Friday, May 3, 2002 - 05:39 am:
Tom,
What is the origin of the word spelunking? What does it mean?
By benjamin on Friday, May 3, 2002 - 07:12 am:
Tom;
"spelunking" is sort of a vernacular way of saying that you are engaging in speleology, this is the exploration of caves and caverns.
Benjamin
By tom jupille on Friday, May 3, 2002 - 03:37 pm:
With the implication of finding one's way through dark, often labyrinthine passageways -- which I why I chose that as an analogy for learning about chromatography from the archives here on the forum!
;-)
-- Tom
By juddc on Wednesday, May 8, 2002 - 10:17 am:
Maybe it's just me, but I've never entirely understood the need for such a course. I'm largely a self-taught chromatographer at a small company and I've found that the information in the general literature (particularly Snyder's Practical HPLC Method Development - Great Book!) and in the users manuals for the instruments that I run is sufficient for me to be able to solve, or at the very least diagnose, most problems that might come up. On the other hand, I suppose they might be useful for bringing newer chromatographers up to speed on the subject quickly and in a uniform manner.
OK, I'll shut up now and go back to my cave :)
Chris
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